A Kingdom of Silence

Silence saved Luciano. Silence nearly killed Mariana.

Luciano Moretti has spent years becoming the man everyone fears. As heir to the Moretti crime family, loyalty is his religion, violence his language, and emotions are luxuries he buried long ago. He learned never to speak about weakness.

When he interrupts what looks like a routine kidnapping in a deserted alley, he expects to leave another body behind. Instead, he walks away with a simple librarian who is terrified, but has fire and fight behind her eyes.

Mariana Solares learned never to speak about what happened to her. She has dedicated her life to languages, rare manuscripts, and helping people lose themselves in books instead of nightmares. But after surviving an attack years ago, she promised herself she'd never depend on anyone for protection again.

Until when fate throws them together after a brutal rescue, two people haunted by different kinds of violence discover healing isn't found in forgetting the past. It's found in trusting someone with it.

But while Mariana slowly breaks through Luciano's walls, a war that threatens his family forces him to choose between protecting the woman he loves...or protecting the empire built by generations before him.